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Theory of (prebiotic) evolution:
Quasispecies and information threshold

Altmeyer S, McCaskill JS. (2001) Error threshold for spatially resolved evolution in the quasispecies model. Phys Rev Lett. 2001 Jun 18;86(25):5819-22.  link

Boerlijst M.A. and Hogeweg P. (1991) Spiral wave structure in pre-biotic evolution: Hypercycles stable against parasites. Physica D 48:17-28  pdf plate1   plate2  

Boerlijst, M.A. and Hogeweg, P. (1991) Selfstructuring and Selection: Spiral waves as a substrate for prebiotic evolution. in: Artificial Life II. SFI Studies in the sciences of complexity Vol X (ed. C.G Langton) Addison Wesley pp 255-276 plate1   plate2   plate3  

Bull JJ, Meyers LA, Lachmann M. Quasispecies made simple. PLoS Comput Biol. 2005 Nov;1(6):e61. link

McCaskill JS. (1997) Spatially resolved in vitro molecular ecology. Biophys Chem. 1997 Jun 30;66(2-3):145-58. Review.  MEDLINE

M. Eigen and P. Schuster (1979) The Hypercycle: a principle of natural selforganisation. Springer, Berlin 92pp (also publised in Die Naturwiszenschaften, 1977:11, 1978:1 and 1978:7)

M. Eigen, J. McCaskill and P. Schuster (1989) The molecular quasispecies Adv. Chem Phys. 75:149-263

Fontana W, 1994 What would be conserved if "the tape were played twice"? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 91(2), 757-761 (1994) link

Hogeweg P and Takeuchi N (2003) Multilevel selection in models of prebiotic evolution: compartments and spatial self-organization OLEB special issue on theoretical models of prebiotic evolution, ed. E Szathmary (in press) pdf

J. Maynard Smith (1979) Hypercycles and the origin of Life Nature 20: 445-446

Szabo P, Scheuring I, Czaran T, Szathmary E. In silico simulations reveal that replicators with limited dispersal evolve towards higher efficiency and fidelity.Nature 2002 Nov 21;420(6913):340-3 link

E. Szathmary (1991) Simple growth laws and selection consequences. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6: 366-370

E. Szathmary and L. Demeter (1987) Group selection of early replicators and the origin of life. J. theor. biol. 128:463-486
(compare D.S. Wilson (1975) The theory of group selection. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci USA 72:143-146)

Takeuchi N, Poorthuis PH, Hogeweg P. (2005) Phenotypic error threshold; additivity and epistasis in RNA evolution. BMC Evol Biol. 2005 Feb 3;5(1):9. link

Zintzaras E, Santos M, Szathmary E. "Living" under the challenge of information decay: the stochastic corrector model vs. hypercycles. J Theor Biol. 2002 Jul 21;217(2):167-81. pdf



Paulien Hogeweg 2003-03-16